From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sebastian Tennant Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: guile-db Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:59:40 +0000 Message-ID: References: <1224013004.4370.5.camel@localhost> <3ae3aa420810141338o20adfbd4p5d9e6da4d5dc4226@mail.gmail.com> <3ae3aa420810151215y769f51efgea70d31d3e31bc12@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224187250 8255 80.91.229.12 (16 Oct 2008 20:00:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:00:50 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 16 22:01:50 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KqZ2b-0007Bx-BJ for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:01:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49543 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KqZ1W-0008Kb-I5 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:00:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KqZ0r-00088x-SD for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:00:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KqZ0q-00088U-Rt for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:00:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54665 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KqZ0q-00088Q-PG for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:00:00 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:36662 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KqZ0q-0002nt-IG for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:00:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KqZ0k-0003bA-RY for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:59:55 +0000 Original-Received: from vps203.linuxvps.org ([91.186.7.203]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:59:54 +0000 Original-Received: from sebyte by vps203.linuxvps.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:59:54 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: vps203.linuxvps.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lNLpI+KKZkot55WriZpFPhSjK/g= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:6832 Archived-At: Quoth "Linas Vepstas" : > 2008/10/15 Sebastian Tennant : >> Quoth "Linas Vepstas" : >>> Dunno. However, fyi, I'm maintaining guile-dbi, which wraps >>> postgres and mysql. >> >> Do you happen to know how guile-dbi's postgres wrapping compare with >> guile-pg, feature-wise? > > Dunno. guile-dbi provides just enough to run generic SQL > statements, and get back records, one at a time, as alists. > Nothing more. > > I have not tried anything aside from this (e.g. no idea of > what happens if you ask it to list all tables, or if you try > to use BLOBs, or access tables where one of the columns > is of type 'money', or one of the dozens of date/time types, > etc.) guile-pg is definitely more feature-full in that case. and ttn's guile-1.4 compatible guile-pg is much more fetaure-full than the guile-1.6 compatible guile-pg generally available through distros. If anyone is interested in porting and maintaining ttn's guile-pg so that it's compatible with guile-1.8 and upwards, in return for bounties, please contact me off-list. Sebastian